Leveraging entrepreneurial bricolage and innovation performance among manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia under a resource constrained environment

This study has adopted the concept of bricolage to explain innovation performance among manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia that operate under resource-constrained environment. By adopting quantitative approach, this study has collected 217 sets of data from the Federation of Malaysian Manufactures (FMM) Directory for 2016. The response rate of the survey is at 43.4% and the data is analysed through PLS-SEM. After the establishment of construct’s validity and reliability, the study has confirmed a significant positive relationship between entrepreneurial bricolage and innovation performance.